Twenty+Questions+by+Susan

Twenty Questions Lesson Plan

Lesson Strategy: Students will take part in a game to review high school options. Students will create flash cards and work in teams of two or three to play a game.

Content Objective: SWBAT identify the different high school options. SWBAT compare at least two different high schools that appear on their list.

Language Objectives: SWBAT verbalize orally and write the different high schools options and a statement about each of the high schools.

Vocabulary: Norwich Free Academy ~ NFA, Thames River Academy ~ TRA, Norwich Technical HS, Grasso Regional Technical HS, Ledyard HS, Ledyard Agri-Science, Science & Technology Magnet HS, Marine Science Magnet HS, Arts at the Capitol Theater ~ ACT, Quinebaug Valley Middle College HS, St. Bernard HS, and Academy of the Holy Family.

Lesson Sequence: 1 ~ After all the high school presentations, students will have an opportunity to debrief the information they learned as well as ask follow up questions they may still have.

2 ~ Students will review all their high school options and gain a more indepth understanding of the process needed and the next steps to take.

3 ~ Students will begin to narrow down the most appropriate high school choice for them and take an active role in their educational experience.

4 ~ Students will receive the appropriate high school applications needed and will be exposed to how to complete an official application.

= Twenty Questions =

Play this game to test your knowledge of the available high school options for 8th grade students in Norwich, CT by asking yes or no questions. Use a set of the flash cards provided (or have the students create them if time allows). Each students will have a Life after Middle School pamphlet with all the information needed to create the flash cards and refer to as a reference.

Directions: Work with a partner or in triads. Place all the cards in a container. Player one pulls out a card and holds it so that Player two cannot see it. Player two can ask up to twenty yes/no questions to try to figure out what card Player one is holding. Once the player guesses, the roles change.

As you play, you can tally the number of questions each student asked for each of the cards. If you are unable to guess the word correctly after all twenty questions, your score for that word is 25.

The player at the end with the fewest number of points wins.

Example: Player One draws the word (Teachers’ Memorial Middle School).

Player Two asks…. Player Ones answers Is the school in Norwich? Yes Is it an elementary school? No Is it a middle school? Yes Is it close to the soccer field No Do I attend this school Yes Is the school TMMS Yes

Player two would score 6 points.

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Player Two Total
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= Following all the high school presentations, I am going to use this activity with all my students including the ELL students. I will be going in to the classrooms, to talk about the different high school options and answer questions they may have now that maybe they did not have previously when the high schools were presenting their information. = This activity will be used to get the students talking about the high schools among one another. Following completion of this activity, the students will complete a KNL chart ~ in small groups and as a class.

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Students may use pre-made flash cards or create them. Due to formatting issues, the flash cards do not appear correctly in this format. If you'd like to see the flashcards, go to the document on that was emailed to you. Unable to fix the font to be the same on this page ~ again, please see the previous emailed document for consistency in this lesson plan. ======